March 16.
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin literatures represent very well sculpture, painting, and engraving or copying in simple outline.
March 19.
There is not exactly beautiful poetry there, but it gives the idea of it; and everything that gives the idea of it charms the mind.
One can say as much of many paintings that give the idea of beautiful painting without its being there. And even of some books. Anacharsis, for example, gives the idea of a beautiful book and is not one. Racine and Fénelon themselves give an idea of their genius or their soul superior to what they let us see of it.
In art and in nature, there are individuals and works that in a sense please more than themselves because they visibly belong to a beautiful kind. It is then the species that is beautiful and that alone beautifies the person or thing [that] bears its imprint.
Above all, then, for a person, a thing, a [production] to be beautiful, their species or kind must be beautiful. Without [this] condition, there will be no beauty there that is inward and can [touch] our soul. For only [what] comes from God, from the soul and from within is touching and penetrating.
March […].
Just as there is the language of the heart and the language of the soul, there is also [the] language of intelligence. The Greek philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) [possessed it] eminently.
March […].
(Hour 4 of the night.) “I shall see your truth, that is to say what you are.” [The] truth of each thing is what it is. Your power and your [truth].
One would ask, if one dared: — Do you believe that God thinks [thus]?
T113. The three literatures and arts remain in their given order, with the final engraving-or-copying alternative. Simple outline renders simple dessin without inventing a particular print technique or work.
T430. The three literary traditions and visual-art sequence retain their printed coordination, fort bien and the final ou alternative. Au simple dessin is left in its printed relation, without an inserted preposition or a corrected artistic category.
T114. The qualified denial, repeated giving-the-idea and final charm remain. No unverified poem or author is identified.
T431. The four source paragraphs remain one dated unit; paragraph 4 starts indented on page 781. Anacharsis and Racine/Fénelon are sentences within paragraph 2, not additional paragraphs. Both eux même forms are spaced with même singular. The source’s [qui] is a printed editorial bracket, retained before plural sont empreintes . Poësie has two raised components over e supporting its diaeresis. The first negative, repeated idea-giving relation, final comparative and person/thing/production list retain their scopes. The singular âme in paragraph 2 and the plural agreements in paragraph 4 are not repaired. At the damaged ordinary left margin on 781, only ction , te , cher and i remain complete after their respective losses. The wrapped pro- joins to pro[…]ction without supplying du . The earlier components of cette , toucher and qui are not restored. The final i is compact and abraded but retains a stem/dot structure; its reading is qualified. Il faut is intact, distinct from detached earlier noise. Independent full/native comparison agrees with all four residue limits.
T115. The paintings/books extension, separate And fragment, Anacharsis paradox and genius-or-soul alternative remain. The named work is not replaced by a description; no external reception claim is added. Superior describes the idea relative to what the writers disclose.
T116. The unusual please-more-than-themselves formulation and in-a-sense qualification remain. Kind/species retains genre/espèce without imposing modern biological classification. [That] corresponds to printed source-editor [qui] . English bears gives grammatical singular agreement to person or thing; the anomalous French en sont empreintes is retained literally in the French, without silent French repair.
T117. The three examples, species-or-kind requirement and conditional future remain. Both touching/penetrating predicates and all three sources remain distinct. This fourth paragraph starts physically on page 781 within the preceding unit. [Production], [this] and [touch] contextually render production , cette and toucher from pro[…]ction , […]te and […]cher ; complete English words receive the brackets without restored French letters. [What] renders intact ce together with contextual qui from the damaged […]i ; its bracket is broader than the missing relative word. Only renders the intact ne…que restriction outside that bracket.
T119. The three languages remain distinct, with also, both named philosophers and the degree eminently. [The] provisionally interprets la at a suspected missing slot whose very presence and extent are uncertain. [Possessed it] contextually interprets l’ont before intact possédée from the damaged […]nt ; the broader English bracket includes the intact participial meaning because the inferred auxiliary and object have no natural single-word counterpart in simple-past English. Neither French opening is restored.
T432. The day consists of disconnected vertical/curved remnants; no complete numeral is certified. The three language relations and named parenthesis remain. Before langue the intact word is displaced to the right of the ordinary continuation column; a suspected loss is marked, but its presence and extent are uncertain and no la is recovered. This differs from a directly interrupted word. Before nt , the clipped components do not establish l’o or another complete opening. The feminine possédée remains. Independent native comparison agrees that the suspected slot before langue has uncertain presence and extent and that the first day is not certifiable.
T120. The opening Latin time abbreviation is translated without converting it to a modern clock time. The quotation remains separate from the following definition. The closing Latin Virtutem tuam et verita[…]m tuam receives a fresh translation, with virtutem provisionally read as power; its exact source and any liturgical occasion remain unverified. Latin and its English counterpart alone retain the closing italic scope; the time circumstance stays in the body. Compare Vulgate Psalm 62:3, which has virtutem tuam et gloriam tuam , and 42:3, which has lucem tuam et veritatem tuam . Neither is an exact match or proves conflation; the source of Joubert’s wording remains unlocated. The bounded controls were the complete displayed Latin of Psalm 62, verses 1–12, and the six numbered divisions of Psalm 42, read electronically without an original-volume claim. [The] contextually supplies La at the French loss before vérité . [Truth] interprets veritatem from damaged verita[…]m ; the full English word is bracketed, and the related Latin witnesses do not restore any missing letter. The complete closing English Latin-counterpart sentence, including its brackets and period, is italic; the time circumstance is roman.
T433. The wholly damaged day stays unknown. The parenthetic hor. 4 noct. begins the body as a time circumstance, with lower-case hor and the complete 4, not an added day heading. The quotation and its final internal period remain. Before vérité , an isolated vertical/low remnant does not certify complete La ; the loss remains explicit. The italic Latin wraps after verita- and retains only a qualified abraded m before tuam on the next line. No te or full familiar Latin wording is restored. Only the Latin through its final period is italic; the time circumstance is roman. Independent native comparison agrees with the lost initial and the qualified final m ; it also confirms that this entry’s day remains uncertifiable.
T121. The conditional, hesitant if clause, dash and direct question remain. Thus leaves the unnamed prior thought unassigned. [Thus] contextually renders ainsi from […]nsi ; no missing French letters are restored.
T434. The conditional formulation, intervening si clause, colon/dash and directly addressed question remain. The final damaged word retains nsi with its complete question mark; no ai is restored. The n has identifiable stem/arch structure despite its blocky reproduction.